john kasich himself, republican governor of ohio, has, of course, been talking about the lower unemployment below the national average in ohio. so the overall feel of ohio and, you know, interesting that at least in that one poll, the president has now broken to 51%, the right track/wrong track up to 42%, those numbers are good for him. i do agree with you, you know this better than anybody, i do think florida is really slipping away, and that makes it, first of all, more important for the obama team to try to get ohio because it does -- it does at least improve romney's chances of threading that needle, if he can win florida. >> no doubt about it. and obviously, willie, issue number one in ohio and across the country, is the economy, but my gosh, a lot of things erupting across the middle east and the world that are going to turn an eye back to foreign policy, whether americans are tired of 12 years of war or not. >> yeah, we talked about this front-page piece in "the times" this morning on syria. also libya. a lot of questions surrounding that. republicans hammering at this, hoping the am